Soft heaps: what is corruption and why is it useful?
问题 I recently read Bernard Chazelle's paper "The Soft Heap, An Approximate Priority Queue with Optimal Error Rate by Bernard Chazelle" (http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/15859-f07/papers/chazelle-soft-heap.pdf) The paper talks a lot about "corruption." What is corruption, how do elements get corrupted, and how does it help you? I have spent a lot of time reading through the paper and Googling and this still doesn't make sense. 回答1: In most research papers on priority queues, each element in the queue